siderea
@0101010001110100 Thanks for the warning! FYI, wet bulb *globe* temperatures (which this map reports) aren't the same thing as wet bulb temperatures.
When you hear about certain wet bulb temperatures being unsurvivable, the assumption is one has already found shade and that is the wet bulb temperature out of direct sunlight. Or put another way, those fatality limits are if the wet bulb temperature in shade is over a threshold, then it's fatal.
Wet-bulb *globe* temperatures are slightly different: they're the weather forecast in direct sunlight. Moving to shade helps get you into a lower wet-bulb temperature.
So this is Bad, but it's not *quite* as catastrophic as it sounds like.
"Landsailor
Deepwinter strawberry
Endless summer, ever spring
A vast preserve
Aisle after aisle in reach
Every commoner made a king
Earthbreaker
Noble and prized
Feed me beyond my means
Hello, worldmaker
Never deny
Build all my wildest dreams
But there's a storm outside your door
I'm a child no more..."
(Vienna Teng, "Landsailor")
Article: [list of ways to stop burning fossil fuels]
jsdz: No! My list is better! [exact same list of ways to stop burning fossil fuels.]
[continued]
"Findings
The final dataset included more than 11.5 million tested isolates. Raw antibiotic-resistance data included nine pathogens and 43 types of antibiotic agents. Significant correlations between PM2.5 and antibiotic resistance were consistent globally in most antibiotic-resistant bacteria (R^2=0.42–0.76, p<0.0001), and correlations have strengthened over time. Antibiotic resistance derived from PM2.5 caused an estimated 0.48 (95% CI 0.34–0.60) million premature deaths and 18.2 (13.4–23.0) million years of life lost in 2018 worldwide, corresponding to an annual welfare loss of US$395 (290–500) billion due to premature deaths."
@ComradePorkRoll
In 2000, I went to Burning Man, which is, if you don't know, a festival that is held on the dry lake bed in a desert, at the end of summer, at which there is no general provision of water. You are warned when you buy your ticket that your hydration is your problem, and that the average human adult in that environment requires two gallons of potable water a day not to die, so you'd better figure out how long you're going to be there and bring enough water for yourself.
I'd never been camping before under such circumstances, but the person I was attending with had a great bit of advice that worked well for me. He insisted that I get a Camelback, which is a water backpack with a drinking tube.
I made a point of never leaving my tent, not even for a trip to the loo, without having my Camelback on my back. The pragmatic upshot was that drinking water was always as near as my right shoulder. Sipping from the tube became habitual.
I've never been so hydrated in my life.
This is not the recipe to save the world, but one thing you can do to help lean on the lever is disinvest from any bank that funds fossil fuel extraction. I'm not talking primarily about investment accounts. I'm talking about ordinary banking and credit cards. If you bank with Bank of America or Wells Fargo, move your money. If you have a Citibank credit card, get a credit card with someone else.
The Rainforest Action Network annually publishes a report "Banking on Climate Chaos" for consumers to look up their banks and see how dirty they are. Recommended.
Banks turn out to be surprising leverage points in the extractive industries. They're actually much larger and much more powerful than the extractive industries they lend money to. The extractive industries need banks way, way more than banks need the extractive industries. Banks could be convinced to stop funding them by social pressure, and then the extractive industries would starve and die.
Location: Massachusetts, USA
First credible flood warnings in my area.
Some context: The region in which I live, after catastrophic flooding in the middle of the 20th century, domesticated and tamed all of the rivers. We have a system of dams and other flood control that mostly keeps our water levels very stable. New Englanders do not understand how artificial the stability of our water levels is, and the kinds of floods we used to have here before all the dams were built to make sure that never happens again.
But now we're getting rainfall like never before, and it's not like our dams are any better maintained than our bridges are - and our bridges are a known scandal.
@qooqie @TheChurn
Lot of people in this thread apparently unaware of exactly how flammable the thawed out north has turned out to be. Siberia has been pretty much continuously on fire since 2021, and you're probably already aware of the extensive wildfire problems in Canada.
I, too, at one point had figured climate change would just push the habitable zone north and open up more of the very large continental area up there. But it turns out, that's not going to be very habitable.